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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Harrison

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/11/2007

HB HJM 43

SHORT TITLE “Tour of the Nations" Bicycle Event

SB

ANALYST Schuss

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Joint Memorial 43 requests that state agencies lend their support to the first “Tour of the

Nations" bicycle event.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Pueblo of Isleta, the Pueblo of Acoma, the Pueblo of Laguna, the Pueblo of Zuni and

Adventure Gallup and Beyond are organizing the first “Tour of the Nations" bicycle event. The

Tour of the Nations bicycle event will be a five-day recreational and educational bicycle ride that

will take its participants through three of New Mexico’s pueblos and two national monuments.

The participants will experience history as they tour Anasazi ruins, view remaining evidence of

Spanish, Mexican and Anglo explorers and stay as guests in three pueblos.

The participants will spend each night at a different pueblo where they will be treated to a tour, a

traditional meal and traditional performances, and the Tour of the Nations will end in Gallup

where participants will receive tickets to participate in the eighty-sixth inter-tribal Indian

ceremonial, the longest-standing Native American event in New Mexico. The Tour of the

Nations will expose participants to Native American culture, North American culture and

Southwest scenery through one of the simplest and most intimate means of travel, the bicycle.

House Joint Memorial 43– Page

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The Tour of the Nations will be an event that will bring more than two hundred bicycle riders

and their friends and families to pueblos, national monuments and other attractions along the

route of the tour. The participants on the tour and their friends and families will provide an

economic boost to the communities along the route of the tour, and participants will be riding

their bicycles on public roads that will be open to vehicular travel.

The Legislature of the State of New Mexico requests that all state agencies cooperate with the

sponsors of the first Tour of the Nations and help to ensure that the event will be as safe as

possible for all participants.

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